TYPICAL ARAB DOUBLESPEAK

The support of the Arab League was crucial to the agreement by the coalition – France, Britain, U.S. and Canada – to set up a ‘No Fly Zone’ by bombing Libya’s air defenses. But when t he coalition expanded it’s attacks by bombing Gadhafi’s troops advancing on Benghazi, the head of the Arab league criticized the attacks.

Amr Moussa, the Arab League's Secretary General, said: “What has happened in Libya differs from the goal of imposing a no-fly zone and what we want is the protection of civilians and not bombing other civilians. From the start we requested only that a no-fly zone be set up to protect Libyan civilians and avert any other developments or additional measures.”

Sources later claimed Moussa had been misquoted and that he had merely meant to reiterate his insistence that civilians should be protected and not harmed under the UN resolution.

This is typical of Arab doublespeak! Arab leaders say one thing when addressing the international community and the exact opposite when speaking to the Arab street.

That has always been the case with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. At the same time Arab leaders tell the international community in English that they favor the existence of two states, one Jewish and the other Palestinian, they vow in Arabic to the Arab street that Israel must and will be destroyed.

Time after time, PLO leader Mahmoud Abbas has told the international community that he wants two states, Palestine and Israel, living side by side in peace. Every time he makes that statement in English, he promises the Palestinians in Arabic that there will be only one state from the “[Jordan] River to the [Mediterranean] Sea.” Every Arab understands that this means Israel will be wiped off the map.

The U.S. has also resorted to a form of double speak. Obama and Hillary Clinton have emphasized that the military attacks on Libya are led by France and Britain, with the U.S. only playing a supporting role. What a crock of supreme shit! While the French may have staged the initial attack on Libya, when our Navy’s surface ships and submarines fire over a hundred cruise missiles and our B-2 bombers and fighter jets from the Air Force and Marine Corps attack Gadhafi’s forces, that is hardly a supporting role.